Blog Tour Review: Delicious Mornings by Dina Foglio Crowell

Delicious Mornings

Comforting Breakfasts Baked from Scratch
by Dina Foglio Crowell

Cookbook
Paperback, 160 Pages
November 11th 2014 by Cedar Fort

Summary

Make the most important meal of the day the BEST meal of your day! Delicious Mornings is a delectable collection of from-scratch breakfast recipes, including everyone’s classic favorites as well as scrumptious new twists like French Toast Casserole, Red Velvet Pancakes, and Easy Apple Fritter Monkey Bread. Holidays, birthdays, or even weekdays—whatever the occasion, you’ll be jumping out of bed to try these amazing recipes!

    

My Review

I was expecting a cookbook with some great recipes and I got that and more in Dina Crowell's Delicious Mornings. The recipes were scrumptious. What a great word that I haven't used in a review until now that is a perfect description for the recipes in this book! They were unique enough that they felt different than others I've come across. Who would have thought of combining oatmeal and Creme Brulee? It was fabulous! Or phyllo dough with asperagus, mushrooms, and eggs? I loved these recipes and the various combinations!

Here are a few of the recipes we tried:

Creme Brulee Vanilla Oatmeal

I don't have a tourch, so I used the suggested alternative, which was brown sugar. It melted before I could get a good picture. This was the creamiest, most divine oatmeal I have ever had. I think I could eat it for every meal. :)

Raspberry White Chocolate Buckle

Oh my goodness, this was good! I did make the mistake of adding the chips in the topping

instead of holding them and melting them for after the buckle was baked, but it still turned out.

Potato Strata Pie

This was really good, although next time we'll use a little less pepper.

Double Chocolate Muffins

These were super yummy and full of chocolate. Definitely something I'd make again.

We also tried the Asparagus and Mushroom Phyllo Bake, which we really loved but will use less pepper next time. This is definitely not light in calories with all the butter in-between each phyllo sheet. And the Almond Apricot Jam Coffee Cake, which was also really good. 

I wasn't disappointed by a single recipe and I would love to try the rest. Some other recipes that stood out to me were the Marbled Chocolate Banana Break Pudding, Triple Berry Banana Chunk Muffins with Oat Streusel Topping, Blueberry Banana French Toast Bake, Spinach Breakfast Crepes with Parmesan Bechamel Sauce. We'll be making it through the cookbook in the coming months because I haven't had enough and especially since we enjoy having breakfast for dinner.

Just as a note, there were a few typos here and there and some missing instructions, but the copy I reviewed was the ARC and hopefully those things were corrected in the finished copy. The recipes were still workable regardless. 

Source: I would like to thank the the publisher, Cedar Fort, for my complimentary review copy, which did not affect my review in any way.

About the Author

Dina Foglio Crowell lives in Historic Fredericksburg, Virginia with her husband who is in the District of Columbia Air National Guard and their four children. She is a self taught baker, professional blogger, photographer, food stylist, award winning cake decorator and freelance writer. She is a member of numerous Ad Networks including Collective Bias, Pollinate Media Group and Tap Influence and works in the highly competitive field of Brand Ambassadorship. She has written articles and developed recipes for ad campaigns working with major brands including Hershey’s, Nestle, Betty Crocker and Kraft Foods. Dina is an award winning cake decorator with two second place wins from the National Capital Area Cake Show in the professional tiered cake division. Her popular blog www.buttercream-bakehouse.com has become a media platform to inspire culinary achievement for home bakers who want to learn the craft of baking and try easy to follow recipes and have comparable success doing it. Dina has been featured on various online recipe forums including Taste of Home, Gooseberry Patch, Recipe Lion, Just a Pinch, The Best Dessert Recipes and Recipe Chart. Her photography has been been the cover shot for several ebooks and can also be found on Foodgawker.com. and Tastespotting.com. Dina is a partner with Taste Media Ad Network and is listed as a favorite blog on Tasteofhome.com. She also serves as a voluntary field editor for Taste of Home magazine.

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